North Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team (DSRT) were called at 5.30pm yesterday (Tuesday) to go to the aid of a person with a possible back injury on Doe Tor, Dartmoor.

They supported Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team - Tavistock and South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust - hazardous area response team (HART).

The casualty had been thrown from his horse and reporting severe pain in both his legs. Meanwhile, remaining team members from DSRT - Tavistock and the Okehampton-based NDSART headed up to the tor with equipment and stretcher to take the rider to safety.

Once on scene, the paramedics from the hazardous are response team assessed the casualty. The injured individual was placed into a vacuum mattress and stretched back to the High Down car park where paramedics and family were waiting. He then had a short wait for a land ambulance to take him to hospital.

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